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A DICTIONARY OF 
there saw a buncli of it hung on every door-latch on May day morn- 
ing.’ Ireland (Antrim; Derry). 
May Geslings, or Goslings. Catkins of Salix. Yks. (Almondhury). 
E. D. S. Gloss. Cfr. Goslings. 
May Tosty. Viburnum Opulus, L. — Dev. Friend. 
May Pink. Dianthus. White Pink. Dev. Friend. 
Mayweed, add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss., where the name is given 
to ‘ camomile.’ 
(2) A sea- weed (a species of ‘ Fucus ’) used as manure in Northum- 
berland. Nliumb. 45. Agric. Surv. Beds.; Glouc. 
Hazard, add (3) Primus Padus, L. — Ireland (co. Limerick). 
Mazer-tree. The black cherry-tree. Dev. N. & Q. 1st S. iii. 467. 
Probably Primus Padus, L. 
Meadow. Cardamine pratensis, L. — N. Yks. 
Meadow Bout, add Sal. (Pulverbatch). 
Meadow -runagates. LysimacMa Nummularia, L. — Nhamp. 
(Brackley). 
Meadow-soot (a pronunciation of Meadoio-sweet). ‘ The country folk 
call it meadow -soot.’ Bound about a Great Estate, p. 37. 
Meadow-sweet, add (2) The garden form of Spircea Filipendula, 
L. — Nhamp. (Brackley). 
Meakin. ‘ Water milfoil {Miyriophyllum).’ Lake district. The 
Lake Country, by E. Lynn-Linton, Appx. 1. 
Meat-nut. Castanea vesca, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Meet-me-love. Saxifraga umbrosa, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Mekkin. (2) add Especially Neplirodium Filix-mas, Eich : ‘ this is 
the Meckin of the dalesmen.’ Trans. Cumb. Assoc, pt. vii. 152. 
Merry, add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Mezell. Daphne Mezereon, L. — Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Milds. add Ireland (Antrim and Down). E. D. S. Gloss. 
Milk girl. Cardamine pratensis^Y. — Dev. Friend. 
Milkmaid. (1) add Ess. (Chelmsford). Applied to this plant in 
The Deceased Maiden-Love. Eoxb. Ballads, i. 261. 
(5) Primida vulgaris, L. var. (the ‘oxlip’). Yks. (Bedale). Field, 
June 29, 1876. 
Milk-the-cows. Cotyledon Umbilicus, L. — Cornw. 
Milkwort, add (4) Euphorbia Helioscopia, L., and other species, 
Ess. (Bocking). 
Money-grass. Rhinanthus Crista-galli, L. — Leic. (Lutterworth). 
Money-pennies. Cotyledon Umhilicus, L. — Dev. Science Gossip, 
1881, p. 192. 
